Two Blockades Evicted at Hambach Forest Occupation

Octo­ber 30th, 2014

RWE Wach­schutz injures activists. One per­son los­ing con­scious­ness due to beat­ing by the secu­ri­ty. Activists choked and arrest­ed with cable ties.

Today was anoth­er block­ade of cut­ting and log­ging in the Ham­bach­er For­est, with­in the cam­paign “No Tree is Falling”.
At this block­ade the RWE Secu­ri­ty attacked the activists with batons and pep­per spray. At this point some activists got injured.

In response a sec­ond block­ade hap­pened to make the secu­ri­ty and the log­gers aware that they injured activists. At this point secu­ri­ty attacked the activists harsh­ly with batons and pep­per spray. In addi­tion the log­ging machine was head­ing direct­ly towards the activists. Dur­ing this attack three activists were injured, one of them los­ing con­scious­ness for a moment. Also the RWE pri­vate secu­ri­ty arrest­ed three peo­ple, they choked them and bond them with cable tie. Activists defend­ed them­selves. After one hour police showed up and arrest­ed 3 more per­sons. The police came from Düren and also the Arrest­ed peo­ple will be brought there.
Come around and sup­port the Block­ades. Show Sol­i­dar­i­ty every­where, thats what the peo­ple need here.
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The Ham­bach­er for­est is the site of an ongo­ing land defense cam­paign in Ger­many. The for­est sits at the edge of a lig­nite (brown coal) mine and is under immi­nent threat from mine expan­sion.

News Tick­er:

– sev­er­al ambu­lance cars dri­ving in the for­est.
– police is evict­ing the block­ades togeth­er with RWE Secu­ri­ty
– The „Pile“ (Fort on the way to the Squat­ted Trees) is sur­round and activists are on Tripods and Trees.

12:00: Police­news: Activists got arrest­ed because of break­ing Civ­il Laws. Prob­a­bly to MünchenGlad­bach, Bergheim, and Düren. (Not Con­firmed)
– around 100 Cops are in the For­est.
– Police and RWE Secu­ri­ty tried to evict the „Pile“ with heavy Machines, although activists where in the block­ade and there life was put at risk.
13:00 Work was stopped. Police said they want to fin­ish the evic­tion until 15:00. 4 Per­sons are in the „Pile“
13:05 Until Now 6 Per­sons got arrest­ed. But they‘re still in the For­est.
Black flag fly­ing Song
13:50 Police is dri­ving with heavy evic­tion machines in the For­est. Also more Cops are on the way in the for­est.
14:00 Log­ging Work is start­ed again. Trees on the way to Tree­block­ade are cut­ed to make way for the evic­tion.
14:10 Activists are trans­port­ed out of the For­est. Cher­ry Pick­ers are dri­ving in the For­est.
15:30 Sev­en more Police Cars drove to the for­est. Now there are 3 Riot Units in the For­est.
– In the „Pile“ Block­ade are actu­al­ly 4 activists. One in the Trees, One in the Tun­nel, Two on Tripods. The „Pile“ is com­plete­ly sur­round­ed by police
– At the Tree­block­ade until now there is no Secu­ri­ty and Police. Only the way for heavy machines is ready.
15:45 Evic­tion of the Pile start­ed. Cher­ryp­ick­er is build up.
16:07 Police in Plain Clothes is watch­ing the Mead­ow occu­pa­tion.
16:30 Activists locked them­selves to the bar­ri­cade (Pile)
16:50 One Per­son got evict­ed from Tri­pod at the „Pile“
– Anoth­er Unit of Riot Police drove to the For­est.
– Tree Block­ade „Gruben­blick“ is sur­round­ed.
– Cher­ry-Pick­er and Flood­light is at the Block­ade.
– One Per­son is in the Trees above the „Pile“
17:30 I seems like the Police is stop­ping the evic­tions.
– The „Pile“ is evict­ed. One Per­son is still in the Trees. 3 more Per­sons got arrest­ed.
18:00 The Bar­ri­cade is pushed togeth­er by the police with heavy machines. The police is touch­ing the tree on which the last per­son is sit­ting. Due to that the police risk the life of the activist. That has been point­ed out to the police sev­er­al time but the dont stop the work.
– Climb­ing Police arrived at the Tree Ocu­pa­tion „Gruben­blick“.
18:20 Nine Police­cars are on the way to the part of the for­est near the mead­ow.
20:30 The Search­ing on the Mead­ow by the Police is fin­ished. More Infor­ma­tion soon.
21:45 In the last 3 hours the fol­low­ing things hap­pened:
– The Treeocu­pa­tion „Gruben­blick“ is evict­ed. The activists got arrest­ed.
– The activist on the tree at the „pile“ block­ade is still up there. Climb­ing Police is on the spot. At the Moment the Cher­ry-Pick­er is raised up.
– The first Per­son got released at the police sta­tion in Düren.

mod­i­fied slight­ly from Ham­bach For­est Blog